Ray Cluley’s work has appeared in a various magazines and anthologies and has been reprinted in Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year, Steve Berman’s Wilde Stories: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction, Johnny Mains’s Best British Horror, and Benoît Domis’s Ténèbres series. He has been translated into French, Polish, Hungarian, and Chinese. He won a British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story and has since been nominated for Best Novella and Best Collection. That collection, Probably Monsters, is available from ChiZine Press. He’s currently working on too many things at once. You can find out more at probablymonsters.wordpress.com

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Lena Coakley’s first novel, Witchlanders, was called “one stunning teen debut” by Kirkus Reviews and won the SCBWI Crystal Kite award for the Americas.  Her latest novel, Worlds of Ink and Shadow, a portal fantasy about the young Brontë siblings and the worlds they created, debuted at #1 on both the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star bestseller lists. Learn more about her at www.lenacoakley.com

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IRVIN S. COBB (June 23, 1876 – March 11, 1944) was an American author, humorist, and columnist who lived in New York and authored more than 60 books and 300 short stories. He was born in Paducah, Kentucky, where he began as a reporter for the Paducah Daily News at the age of seventeen. He became the nation’s youngest managing news editor two years later. His career took him to media and artistic prominence in New York City, where his Saturday Evening Post columns reached over two million readers. He was such a well-known and well-loved figure that he hosted the 7th Academy Awards ceremony.

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Mário is a writer and translator, born in Portugal in 1990, year of the German reunification. You’re welcome, Germans. He likes post-rock and melancholic sci-fi.
His English-language fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons and Solarcide, but it won’t stop there. You can find his multilingual ramblings on Twitter at @MSeabraCoelho.

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Theodore Rose Cogswell (1918 – 1987) was an American science fiction author. During the Spanish Civil War, he served as an ambulance driver for the Republicans as part of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Cogswell wrote almost 40 science fiction stories, most of them humorous. Many thanks to John Betancourt and the Cogswell estate for working with us to share this story with you.

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Jaron voices and produces professional radio commercials and other audio production projects.

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Michael Harris Cohen’s work is published or forthcoming in various magazines and anthologies including F(r)iction, Catapult’s Tiny Crimes, The Exposition Review, The Dark, A Punk Rock Future and Conjunctions. He is the winner of F(r)iction’s short story contest, judged by Mercedes Yardley, as well as the Modern Grimmoire Literary Prize. He’s received a Fulbright grant for literary translation and fellowships from The Djerassi Foundation, OMI International Arts Center, Jentel and the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation. His first book, The Eyes, was published by the once marvelous but now defunct Mixer Publishing. He lives with his wife and daughters in Sofia and teaches in the department of Literature and Theater at the American University in Bulgaria.

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Donyae Coles has had a number of works appear in various podcasts, magazines, and anthologies. She has recently sold her debut novel but a list of her short works can be found on her website, donyaecoles.com.

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